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Romney ‘embarrassed’ US at Olympics - Obama aide

Sunday, August 5, 2012

US: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's
criticism of the London Olympics was a national embarrassment for the United
States, a top aide to President Barack Obama said on Sunday.

Romney's remarks were widely seen as a gaffe and were
ill-timed as his visit to Britain kicked off an important foreign tour aimed at
burnishing his diplomatic credentials ahead of the US presidential election in
November. “I'm happy (British Prime Minister) David Cameron had the last word,
because I thought it was embarrassing for our country,” Robert Gibbs, a senior
advisor on Obama's re-election team, told ABC's “This Week” program.

Within hours of landing in London, NBC television broadcast
an interview in which Romney said it was “hard to know just how well” the
Olympics would turn out and said there were “a few things that were
disconcerting.”

He even questioned the British Olympic spirit, adding: “Do
they come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? That's something which we
only find out once the Games actually begin.”

Cameron duly responded with what was believed to be a veiled
attempt to belittle one of Romney's crowning achievements, his rescue of the
2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City from financial ruin.

“We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most
active, bustling cities anywhere in the world,” the British leader said.

“Of course it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the
middle of nowhere.” Gibbs said Romney's decision to “stand in the country of
our strongest ally,” and question whether or not Britain was ready for the
Olympics “does make you wonder whether or not he's ready to be
commander-in-chief?” “It's clear that voters in this country wonder aloud
whether Mitt Romney is ready for the world, and I think the world is not yet
ready for Mitt Romney,” the former White House press secretary said.